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Poetry: Double standards

by Sara Jamal

Created on: July 31, 2009

You, yes.

Her, no.

And, that's the way it goes.

For you it's sold for the price of gold.

A different story she's come to know.

What she's been to told is

that she cannot hold

that she should fold

"Just go home"

"For me, it's right

cuz, I've got might

Know your place,

or fall on your face."

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